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Reports that a pen-and-ink drawing of a palace in Venice, Italy, is one of the many treasures that the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, New York City, will show beginning March 11, 2004, when it opens "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth". Drawings by the Mannerist architect Andrea Palladio; Proposal for a new Doge's Palace in Venice which was never used.

Focuses on "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," a array of paintings, sculptures and works on paper once owned by the Manhattan-based art dealer Pierre Matisse and his wife Maria-Gaetana, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Personal background of Matisse; Collection of his father's works, Henri Matisse; Popularity of Matisse's art; Main attraction of the show.

The article presents information on the art exhibition by Michael Mazur in Manhattan. For one who started out under the spell of the gloomy graphic artist and sculptor Leonard Baskin, Mazur has come a distance. Primarily known as a printmaker, he is also a draftsman, sculptor and painter. The canvases and works on paper seem to have progressed beyond the Chinese influence to a looser, more open handling of paint and space. The resulting exuberance and canvases are less structured, their sunnier colors and freer linear forms floating in a limitless expanse.

The article presents information on the painting exhibition by Thomas Demand in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York. Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever. "Clearing," is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight steaming into the middle. That things so clearly fake can seem so vividly real propels the mind into deeper waters of thought, not only about how and what one can truly know about the world.